Re: /dev on Ramdisk cause panic?

William Burrow (aa126@fan1.fan.nb.ca)
Mon, 24 Mar 1997 19:59:03 -0400 (AST)

On Mon, 24 Mar 1997 thoth@purplefrog.com wrote:

> mknod /tmp/dev-ram b 1 1
>
> I wonder if you can unlink this entry after you've mounted it. Of course,
> if your /tmp is on a read-only filesystem you would have to already have
> such an entry and you certainly couldn't unmount it.

Sure, you can unlink any file once it is opened. But it won't be going
anywhere until closed. 

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